Opinion: I am an abortion rights activist. I hope the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
where there is either already a trigger law waiting to put a total abortion ban in place automatically or where the state has signaled a desire to do so onceis gone. Until now, encroaching restrictions on abortion have tended to affect more marginalized communities while bypassing those of privilege, but full-scale state abortion bans will put everyone on a much more level playing field.
As we’ve seen in other countries, it often takes such high stakes to trigger change when it comes to guaranteeing abortion rights. For instance, it was the death of Savita Halappanavar in 2012, who was denied a life-saving abortion in Ireland, that galvanized activists and lawmakers to overturn that country’s total abortion ban in 2018.
While the privileged and well-connected would still be able to nab private procedures from their physicians with a wink, or catch a plane to Chicago or New York City, Americans post-would be living in a country where the fact of an unwanted pregnancy means either childbirth or risking arrest, not to mention their health and lives in the worst cases of illegal abortions, in some states.
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